Check out the story here. Covers in detail what good and bad behavior, honest and dishonest, each side should and can expect from the other throughout the customer-lawyer relationship. A valuable field guide to what can and does go wrong, from the irrationally optimistic irresponsible misguided start to the almost inevitable acrimonious finish:-
Each chapter covers a particular stage as the relationship proceeds towards elegant or inelegant disintegration
Covers rational and irrational behavior, psychology, technical content, procedure, conventions, policies, practices and effectual and ineffectual, honest and dishonest, competent and incompetent regulation, supervision and scrutiny
Contains detailed methodologies for the prospective and actual customer to preempt being the victim of any lawyer racket: deep due diligence throughout; the customer's own checks, logs, ledgers, archive, especially about issues, points, concerns, instructions, gross and net expenses, costs, prices, values; micro-scrutiny of all procedural and substantive points, issues, relationships, transactions and activities in the inner office, back office, front office, recourse, etc.
Distils around thirty years of experience dealing professionally, and around fifty years dealing personally, with crooked tenth-rate specialist lawyers in various jurisdictions. Full of real-life practical examples, case studies, illustrations, graphics. A companion to Lawyer Rackets.
